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...Dutch bank ABN AMRO was accused by authorities of illegal foreign-exchange trades with state-owned Incombank, costing the latter $5.4 million. The Vietnamese bank is demanding that ABN AMRO repay the losses?even though they were incurred by an Incombank employee. ABN AMRO says it has done nothing wrong. Incombank won't comment, and Vietnamese authorities haven't said exactly which banking regulations have been broken. But what has sent a chill through the foreign investment community is that local Hanoi police?not state banking regulators?are running the investigation. "The rule of law is manipulated in Vietnam...
...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...
...many liberal members who have backed Pelosi in the past. At a time when both parties are worried about pork-barrel spending, Murtha's longtime role on the House Appropriations Committee, where he secured members' votes with promises of getting special spending earmarks in their districts, could send the wrong message. Also, Murtha doesn't have the perfect record for a party trying to ease voters' concerns about Washington corruption; in the 1980s, he was investigated but not charged in a corruption case where eight members of Congress, including Murtha, were offered money by FBI agents posing as a representatives...
...Lebrot. Lebrot's office declined to comment, citing pending litigation by Rabehi and seven colleagues who challenged the revocations in court. Pending the court ruling expected next week, Rabehi and another plaintiff had their badges returned to them - proving, Rabehi said, "the authorities acknowledge the information against us was wrong. How can you not doubt the other cases...
...Howard the kind of thump U.S. President George W. Bush received last week for his grim war in the Middle East. To fix its brand, as they say in the trade, Labor has to go beyond Iraq and I-rates. "We have spent too much time asking what's wrong with John Howard," says Lindsay Tanner, Labor's finance spokesman, of the party's lost decade. "Instead we should have been asking, What's wrong with Australia??then building a sufficiently robust alternative...